Google Talk Messenger
Google launched an instant messaging program, Google Talk, which allows text chat and computer-to-computer voice connections, a move that highlights the growing competition from search giant Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online. Google website provides a link to download Google Talk and stated that the software allows you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free? any time, anywhere in the world. "
Google's messaging program is linked to the company's Web e-mail program, Gmail, and both are in beta. Google Talk currently works only on Windows, according to the Google website. People need a microphone and a speaker to leverage the capabilities of voice.
Discussion forums are full of tips and complaints, and scores of screenshots have increased since Google released the beta version of Google Talk. Across the Web, many consumers have welcomed fast software download time, which takes a few seconds over broadband and about three minutes over a typical modem, according to the website of Google Talk. They also applauded its minimalism.
However, CNET News.com readers were mixed in response to the new version. "So, Google has entered the IM space - woohoo," wrote the reader Toby Barrick News.com 's discussion forum. "Where is the innovation that Google is famous for? Heck, they do not even have the video of what I saw. "
But some have welcomed Google's move. "I will not deny it's very spartan in appearance, but the presentation is elegant manuals Google," wrote Christopher Hall, please. "I'm not interested in emoticons, skins, and file transfer. I need to communicate, not fancy like a Trapper 12 year old daughter's Keeper."
Google has also released a beta version of its desktop software, adding features such as "Sidebar," which offers a personalized panel of information such as e-mail, stock quotes and news. The software also includes a tool-style scratch-pad for taking notes and research tools and Microsoft Office Outlook box. Called Desktop 2, the software can be downloaded for free from Google website.
The two deals, including the sidebar, have the potential to divert existing users of Microsoft, analysts said. But Google - in a technique perfected long ago by Microsoft - has made software developers an important target as well. Like almost all of its services, Google talk is compatible with industry standards and providing hooks intended to allow developers to build out complementary products.
Of course, the ever-widening range of products Google has people wondering if the company is to create the equivalent of an operating system. Strictly speaking, Google products are not a replacement OS, but the collection of Google products serve the same purpose, according to analysts. Even products that run on Windows PCs, such as Google's Picasa photo editing software, could be attached to online services from Google.
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